Are you into horse racing and/or fantasy sports? If so you should check out the Winstar Fantasy Derby. Nashville Interactive handled the User Interface design and also had a hand in the development of the Fantasy Derby portion of the Winstar site. Once again, this project entailed working with some great people on a cool site. So, even if you're not a horse racing aficionado, you should check out the contest. It's completely free and you might even win a trip to see the 2010 Kentucky Derby! Mint Juleps and sun hats anyone?
Archive for January, 2010
Scripture-Lullabies.com Launches
Jan 27 2010The Nashville Interactive designed and developed scripture-lullabies.com has officially launched! This was a great project to work on. The site design is one that definitely made the web design portfolio and the development portion of the project is a perfect example of how open-source software allows for all the power and flexibility of a proprietary CMS. The site has an e-commerce aspect that allows the client to sell and manage their products directly from the site. The project also included a promotional marketing video created in After Effects. The video and the site have already become some of my favorite work of late but there's much more website and graphic design work on the horizon so stay tuned!
(oh yeah, and if you have kids, this CD is a great one to play at bedtime so check it out.)
Excerpts and Read More Links in WordPress 2.9+
Jan 12 2010With the release of WordPress 2.9, there have been a couple nice little enhancements to excerpts. It's now very easy to change the good old [...] to whatever you'd like including a simple "More" link that links to the post. It's also now just as easy to control the length of the excerpts as well. Simply use the code below as a starting point. Place this code in your theme's functions.php
function new_excerpt_more($more) {
return '… <a href="'.get_permalink().'">MORE</a>';
}
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');function new_excerpt_length($length) {
return 30;
}
add_filter('excerpt_length', 'new_excerpt_length');
Always Sisters Forever Brothers Website Launches
Jan 6 2010Nashville Interactive recently designed, built and launched alwayssisterforeverbrothers.com. This website for the 2010 Always Sisters Forever Brothers Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, proved to be a great project to work on. The site design awarded Nashville Interactive the opportunity to use some pretty cool javaScript and front-end development techniques. The website features a scrolling "homepage" that creates a nice, cohesive experience for viewing the top-level content. Much care was taken to ensure that the browser back and forward buttons would work with this design and more importantly that deep linking to all the top level content within the scrollable sections would work across all the major web browsers.
The site utilizes Wordpress as a content management system which allows the client to take full control of their website and in-turn the message they want to put in front of their audience. Empowering clients to control their website's content is good website design, and this sort of self sustainability is part of Nashville Interactive's primary mission.
